]> http://www.irishasia.com/taxonomy/term/16/0 en-US http://www.irishasia.com/node/187 <!-- google_ad_section_start --> <p>Shanghai Preparing for 'Human Zoo' Thu May 11, 6:01 PM ET</p> <p>SHANGHAI, China - Shanghai is getting set to open a "human zoo." </p> <p>Four Australian men will live in a glass box on a downtown mall for two weeks in June, with the public able to watch them sleeping, eating and bathing, a news report said Thursday.</p> <p>The group, known as the Urban Dream Capsule, has drawn crowds with similar displays in London, Montreal, Hong Kong and other cities.</p> <p>"They won't turn off the lights or pull down the curtains. They show their whole life, from getting up to going to bed," Karen Chang, the event's organizer, told the Shanghai Daily newspaper.</p> <!-- google_ad_section_end --> Entertainment Shanghai Fri, 12 May 2006 02:57:35 -0600 http://www.irishasia.com/countries/china/shanghai <!-- google_ad_section_start --> <ul id="page_anchors"> <li><a href="/node/13#living">Living</a></li> <li><a href="/node/13#entertainment">Entertainment</a></li> <li><a href="/node/13#things">Things to see</a></li> <li><a href="/node/13#links">Links</a></li> </ul> <p>'Whore of the Orient, Paris of the East' was how Shanghai <img src="/files/shanghai.oldtown.jpg" alt="Shanghai Old Town" class="rfloat" /> was described in the 1920s and that pretty much sums up the place now following China’s re-opening up to the west and the rapid influx of foreign investment. A city of close to 20milion people, it’s a buzzing metropolis full off east-meets west confusion where just about anything is for sale.</p> <!-- google_ad_section_end --> China Local Report Shanghai Fri, 23 Sep 2005 05:48:21 -0600